Mudavadi’s move to quit ODM is political suicide

By Otuma Ongalo

Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has finally made good his threat to quit the Orange Democratic Movement and join the little known United Democratic Forum (UDF). He did so amid his friends and foes’ chants and cheers. Friends celebrated that the man long considered the coward of Kenya’s big time politics had finally become the bridegroom, rather than the flower girl, in the ever-evolving political marriages of convenience. Foes were elated to witness him commit political suicide, in broad daylight, in his quest to prove that he is his own man.